M iddle school students who demonstr ate M CDS's four core values of honor, wisdom,
respect and compassion can receive the Core Values Awar d.
Evening of the
Ar ts

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Avenger s:
I nfinity War

BY I SABEL L A
GAL OFRE
Core Values has
become an important
part of our middle
school. There have
been awards for them
since the 2012-2013
school year. Six
years ago some
teachers got together
to recognize students
who do special
things, good
students?service to
the school, and
students who
demonstrate the four
core values of honor,
respect, wisdom, and
compassion. Then
they decided to give
a monthly award to
three students. The
award is a certificate,
a medal, and a $10
bake sale coupon.
There have been 18
Core Value Awards
winners in the year.
There have been six
Core Value Winners
from every grade.

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Mr. Mathes, the
director of the middle
school said, ?There
were a lot of teachers
who wanted to give
the award after every

Photo by Rachel Hodes
Above: All of the students who've received a Core Values Awar d dur ing the 2017-2018 school year.
month. Mrs. Pekoc was one of the major people who
wanted the idea to happen, but I have to be honest and
say that I probably came up with the idea and then shared
it with the team leaders.?
Mr. Fallik, the eighth grade team leader, and an eighth
grade social studies teacher said, ?The eighth grade team
decides on the monthly eighth grade core value winners
by having weekly team meetings with all the eighth grade
advisors, where we often discuss students who we think
are worthy. We share our experiences that we had with
those students and we try to remember certain things that
they might have done to show the four core values.?
Continued on page 4

Wendy Walk, 2018
BY RACHEL H ODES

On April 8 the annual Wendy Walk took place. The walk
was hosted in Hibiscus Park Miami. Numerous events
went on throughout the day like a zumba class warm up, a
5k, and multiple rafles.

BY JAK E GROSSM AN
Orlando Fest is a yearly competition
that happens at a high school
performance auditorium in Orlando.
Only some Middle School electives
can perform at this competition. The
electives that perform at Orlando Fest
are Beginning Instruments, Beginning
EBO, Middle School Chorus, Middle School Concert
Band, and Intermediate EBO.

Before the walk began, Dr. Jonathan from the Sylvester
Cancer Center and Dr. W. Gregory Sawyer from the
University of Florida came down and spoke at the Walk.

This year the students of Miami Country Day Middle
School earned first place in all music sections. In EBO
and in Chorus, MCDS received superior marks in the
majority of their categories. Superior is the highest
Continued on page 5 grade that you can get in music grading or
performances.

This year was the ninth annual Wendy Walk and it was a
big success. A lot of kids from
Country Day came to support the From left: Bella Brod, Sienna Rosenber g, Tiana Tolles, Olivia Cooper, Sier r a
Landes Family Foundation and
Rosen and Stephanie Rosen.
especially because of the Rosen?s
whose children go to school at
MCDS. Wendy Landes was the
sister of Mike Rosen, father of
Kayla (11th grade) and Sierra (6th
grade.)
The event started at 10 am and the
park quickly filled with many
people and even pets. The park
was set up with a sign up/tee shirt
booth, dj booth, merchandise tent,
raffle booth, and a stand for bagels
from Einstein Bros. There were
stands for sponsors like Deliver
Lean and Lanzo Construction.
They also had a frozen yogurt
truck and a taco truck. Across the
street was a truck to donate blood
and people donated blood.

Playing in
Orlando

In Orlando Fest, MCD middle school students and lower
school students performed and represented MCDS. The
competition at Orlando Fest is not easy. Several other
schools also have competing bands, choruses,
orchestras, and other music performers.
The Arts Director, Ms. Alfonso, said, ?I think we have
been going to Orlando Fest for about seven years.?
?It is challenging to play in front of judges,? said Ms,
Alfonso.
At Orlando Fest, the students are graded on several
aspects of their performances. Some of these aspects are
posture, music reading, dynamics, keeping tempo, and
playing the right notes. Grading aspects can be very
detailed. For example, EBO students are graded even on
their bow direction.
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BY I SABEL L A
GAL OFRE

This year?s
Buoyancy Cup
took place on
March 9th. The
boats who won
the Buoyancy Cup
were, The
Unicorn in first
place, The Cig in
second place, and
Rock the Boat in
third place.
The Unicorn was
built and
navigated by Alex
Mendelson, Evan
Hurwitz, and Ryder Rosenberg. The Cig
was built and navigated by Cody
Halliwell, Nate Giovannucci, Anthony
Calfa, and Tkari Donaldson. And Rock
the Boat was built and navigated by Kyle
Johnson and James Scher.
Out of the twenty-eight teams that
participated in the Buoyancy Cup, eleven
of those teams made it across the pool
and back without their boat sinking.
The middle school Buoyancy Cup has
been going on for fifteen years. Mr.
Finny, the middle school dean of
students, explained that the Buoyancy

Sink
or
F
loat?
Buoyancy Cup: Agreat MCDStradition
Cup started in
high school as a
physics project.
Mr. Hori, the
physics teacher
in the high
school at that
time, started the
project to show
the students how
buoyancy works.
Middle School
Director Mr.
Mathes said,
?The Buoyancy
Cup has changed
over time because of the more entries,
better boats, and the number of people
who attend to watch it. This year one of
our sponsors, which is the company that
supplies with all the cleaning people,
advertised and gave us some money to
advertise. There was a little spot set up
where teams would go over and take
their picture and got their pictures for
free.?
Mrs. Muhlig, the 6th grade math teacher,
watched the Buoyancy Cup for the first
time because this is her first year seeing
it. She said that her favorite part about
watching the Buoyancy Cup was
watching the ones that were having
trouble
and sort of
sinking,
but in a
good way.
?I think
the

Buoyancy Cup is
important to the
middle school
because it gives
students a chance
to work together
and to think
creatively,? said
Mrs. Muhlig.
Amy Bhakta, a
seventh grader,
who participated
in the Buoyancy
Cup with her
friend Lauren
McGaffic, said
that she enjoyed the Buoyancy Cup
except for when she fell of her boat
before it sank. The name of their boat
was the Speedy Bees.
Jessica Levy, a sixth grader who
participated in the Buoyancy Cup, said
that her favorite part about the Buoyancy
Cup was building her boat called Taste
the Rainbow, with her other group mates
Cristina Hernandez and Luci Pasqualin.
?I think the middle school Buoyancy Cup
is sort of the same from the lower
schools Buoyancy Cup,? said Jessica.
?The only thing different were the rules.?
Jessica,
Cristina,
and Luci
were able
to get their
boat
across the

pool and back in
2:04 without their
boat sinking.
Indira Schargel, a
sixth grader, said
that she enjoyed
watching the
Buoyancy Cup. ?I
enjoyed watching
the Buoyancy Cup
because I know that
the kids that
participated in it
worked really hard
to build their boats,
and all the boats
came out great!?
?I think that Buoyancy Cup is a great
tradition at Miami Country Day School,?
said Mr. Fallik, the eighth grade social
studies teacher and the middle school
journalism teacher, ?I love how much
work the students put into their boats and
the sense of competition.?
Overall this years Buoyancy Cup was
great, everyone had fun and all the boats
were great! The middle school can?t wait
and looks forward to next year's
Buoyancy Cup!

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Celebrating
Core Values
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Mrs. Pekoc, the seventh grade team
leader, and seventh grade science teacher
explained that the seventh grade team
decides on the Core Values Award
winner by also getting together with all
the seventh grade teachers. The teachers
submit names of students that they think
are worthy of the Core Values Award and
then they vote on who they think should
be the winner.
Mrs. Finny, the sixth grade team leader
and the sixth grade STEM teacher said,
?I decide who the monthly Core Values
recipient by asking the sixth grade team
to think about a student they would like
to nominate who shows the four core
values.? She further explained, ?I think
the core values are important to the
middle school and to the whole school.
We do honor our students because in
these years it?s hard, and we try to
remind the students who they are and
what is important in our community.?
Arianna Cartellon, a sixth grader who
won the Core Values Award said, ?Ever
since I won the Core Values Award, I am
more conscious of my behavior because I
want to prove that they were right about
picking me and not because I know that I
am not going to be chosen again.? She
also said that it was a surprise to her
when her name was called at the
assembly because it was her first year at
the school, and she didn?t know that
middle school had the Core Values
Awards.

Mia Finvarb, a new sixth grader who also
won the Core Values Award, said that she
was so happy when she won the Core
Values Award. ?I feel like all the work I
did paid of by winning the Core Values
Award.?
Below is a list of all the Core Values
Award winners:

Wendy Walk 2018
Arecord-breaking year
?The event usually raises $20-25,000 and
this year it was double,? said Kayla
Rosen, she was Wendy?s sister in law.
?When it first started it was 20-25
thousand and then for the last few years
we?ve been trying to get sponsors so it?s
been more like $30-35,000 and I thought
sponsors were a good idea and we should
really try and get sponsors because that?s
what will make the big difference. And it
did? Before the event we already had
16,000 in sponsors.
In total the event raised $50,000!
?The Wendy Walk has impacted my life
because since I can remember I?ve been
doing walks and supporting my aunt with
my whole entire family,? said Sierra
Rosen.
?Wendy was very sweet, kind,
outgoing, and considerate of
others,? said Sierra.
?I felt good devoting my time
to a family that has lost
someone to cancer,? said sixth
grader Cecilia Storm.
?I loved walking with my
friends and helping with the
raffles to raise money for
sarcoma,? said Ella
Gilderman, a sixth grader.
During the three point one
mile walk several families in
Hibiscus gave out water to the
participants. The sun was
shining all day so it was
important for everyone to
stay hydrated.
Everyone was enjoying
themselves and having a
great time. Anyone
driving past in a car
would be able to see the
hundreds of smiling faces
that day.
?It was a wonderful
experience and there was
a lot of laughter in the
air,? said Jashan Singh.
?I decided to go to the Wendy Walk
because I?ve known the Rosens for a
long time and I wanted to support their
cause,? said Merritt Lubetsky in the sixth
grade, ?My favorite part about the
Wendy Walk was the actual walk. It was
lots of fun.?
The Wendy Walk clubs at school are
separate from the actual walk, but at the
end of the year they donate the money
they raise to the charity
anyways.
In total 400- 450 tickets
were sold for a minimum
of 20 dollars each. Over
300 people showed up.
?I thought it was fun,?
said Cecilia Storm. ?My
favorite part was at the
end when one of the
houses had a sprinkler set
up and we got to run into
them.?

Sixth grader Tyler Sastre said that
the walk is special because it?s
walking for cancer and it helps
people.
?There?s not that many events for
sarcoma and this is a pretty big one,? said
Mrs. Rosen
In addition the Wendy Walk does other
events like spin classes and more.

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Arts and
Entertainment
Winning OrlandoFest
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C

ompeting is not the only goal of attending Orlando
Fest. Another goal of attending Orlando Fest is to learn
and improve in front of judges and audiences. There are

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three judges at the competition.
Some Middle School performers who have shared
thoughts about their experience at Orlando Fest are
Renan Custodio, Alex

Kalvarskiy, Felipe Blaya, and Robert Depradine. Robert
Depradine plays the violin in both intermediate EBO
and Concert Band. Renan Custodio plays the clarinet in
the class of Concert Band. Felipe is also a member of
the EBO.
Renan Custodio said, ?Before the
performance, I get scared not to mess
up, because I have a microphone next
to me.?
Other students shared that they had
similar experiences as Renan.
Alex Kalvarskiy said, ? To prepare for
Orlando Fest, our class played the
song every time we could.?
Alex described the songs that his
group played.
He said, ?I performed with the
clarinet, the songs were the Eye Of
The Tiger, March 8th Blues, and Late
Pass. The last two songs were written
by 8th graders at MCDS.?
Felipe Blaya said, ? I prepared by
practicing music every morning in my
EBO class.?
Felipe Blaya also commented, ?I
performed the songs "Kabuki Theater", "Fiddling to
Boston", and "Star Dancer.?
Felipe Blaya said, ?I played music because it was fun to
spend time with my friends in class.?
?The only struggle I had was the boring bus ride,? said
Alex Kalvarskiy. He also expressed boredom about,
?The wait before we could leave the theatre which was
seven hours.?
The performances happened on Friday. At the end of
the performances, late on Friday, the students went to
the hotel to sleep. Early Saturday morning, all of the
students and teachers are able to go to Universal Studios
at Orlando and have a fun time. The students are able to
explore the park without supervision from teachers.
Ms. Alfonso said, ?My favorite part about Orlando fest
is being with the students.?
Felipe Blaya a seventh grader said, ?My favorite part of
Orlando Fest is going to the parks, trying all the rides,
and spending time with my friends.?
In Orlando fest, the students and the teachers stayed at
the Hard Rock Hotel.
Robert Depradine agreed with Felipe when he said, ?My
favorite part about Orlando fest is going to Universal
and riding all of the rides.?
Alex Kalvarskiy also wanted to share the best part of his
trip, ?My favorite part about Orlando Fest was spending
time in the parks.?

Evening of the Arts
BY JAK E GROSSM AN
Concert Band member said, ?We practiced
during our elective concert band and prepared
our pieces for the concert.?

E

vening Of The Arts is a once a year performance
that happens in Spring. There are are many performers
in this performance from different elective classes.
Some examples of those electives are EBO, Beginning
Instruments, Middle School Band, and Dance. All of
these electives perform for one day in the CFA for
anyone to see.

Marco Pacheco who is in intermediate EBO and Concert
Band said, ?I take my instrument home during the
weekend to practice.?

Many students have performed in The Evening Of The
Arts for many years. Most or all of the these students
will continue to perform in high
school. They may change their
Arts Director Ms. Alfonso said, ?This event is supposed
instruments or performing
to show what we do in class everyday.?
in high school,
?This is my thir d categories
because there are other
year. it was fun performing arts electives
Evening Of The Arts has been a
choose from in high
performance for each of the last fifteen
because we played to
school.
years. It is hard work for the students and
good music and
the teachers to make this performance
happen. Although the viewers probably
people cheered Juan Pablo said, ?This is
don?t notice the difficulties, the
and there was my third year. it was fun
performers and the teachers have them.
because we played good

good food.?

In Evening Of The Arts, many of these
performers had some struggles preparing
for their performance.

- J.P. Casas

Ms Alfonso said ?All the arts disciplines perform
including dance, music, drama and theater.?
Tyler Koch who is an eighth grader said, ?There was not
enough time to change into our new clothes for each
performance.?
Seventh grader Lucas Velloso who is in Concernt Band
said, ?Well, one of us didn?t even have our music.?
Declan Scott who is a seventh grader said, ?Well I
wasn?t sure about all of the music so I did my best and
played the notes I thought were correct at that time.?
Juan Pablo Casas who is an eighth grader said, ?Some
people were not sure where to go.?
Ms Alfonso said, ?It is a challenge to schedule
everybody so they get the time that they need. It is hard
for visual arts, because they have to display art work.
But, other than that, the arts team is very good and we
always make it work, because the students are great.?
In Evening Of The Arts, different electives practice
differently depending on what they are supposed to learn
for the performance. It is hard work and takes a lot of
practice.
Tyler Koch in Dance said, ?We rehearsed, and we did
dress rehearsal.s?
Some of the students had to learn and practice on their
own after class. Declan Scott who is in Beginning EBO
said, ?Well I went to EBO; he taught me stuff; and I
learned in the class.?
Juan Pablo Casas who is in intermediate EBO and

music and people cheered
and there was good food.?

Lucas Velloso said, ?This was my
second year. It was fun because we got
to watch all the other groups perform.?
At MCDS it is mandatory to take one
arts class during middle school for one
year.
Tyler Koch said, ?Well, I needed a art
elective and Dance was pretty fun so I
heard. That made me choose dance.?
Juan Pablo said, ?I enjoy listening to music. So I chose
music.?

MCDS has many performances in addition to Evening
Of The Arts. For example, there is a fall concert and a
spring concert performed at the auditorium at school.
Some performing groups also perform at assemblies.
Also, Evening Of The Arts and the other school
performances include high school music class
performers.

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The Newest
Game Obsession

The Funniest
Show on TV

BY A RTYOM T RUK HACHEV

Fortnite is a very popular video game. The
game consists of mostly building,
shooting, and trying to get a Victory
Royale.

BY NOAH GAUDET
Impractical Jokers is a funny TV show
that has been on TV for a very long Time.
The TV show came out on December 15,
2011, and aired on TruTv and Comedy
Central UK.

The TV show Impractical Jokers has 160
episodes available to watch as of now.
The show is still releasing episodes as
their last episode was May 3, 2018.
The Impractical Jokers cast has a net
worth totaled of 2.4 million dollars.

The main cast members of the show are
James Murray, Sal Vulcano, Joseph
Gatto, and Brian Quinn. The characters'
My favorite episode of Impractical Jokers
names in the show are also
was definitely when the guys
their real life names. These
in New Orleans and took
These four best were
Four guys work very well
sips from random people?s
fr iends do
together and it is easy to tell
drinks. The loser of this
that they are really good
episode had to turn into a
anything to
friends and have a lot of fun
swamp monster.
when they are joking around make their show
with each other.
the funniest out
Another one of my favorite
there.
episodes was when Joe, Murr,
Since the cast works so well
Sal, and Q go into the
together the show is very
supermarket and take items from random
entertaining and fun to watch.
peoples carts. In this episode they also
The whole point of the show is for the
pretend to know random people , and the
four guys to compete in public challenges
objective of this was to get that person to
and embarrass themselves in front of their
agree with them. The loser of this episode
audience on TV. The people they're
had to ask random people if their
pranking and the loser of that episode has
wedding proposal was good enough.
to do something very embarrassing at the
end of the show.
There are many reasons why I really like
this show and one of them is because they
Something they have done at the end of
do things that other pranksters would not
an episode was a challenge in front of an
do. These four best friends do anything to
audience that made the loser of the day
make their show the funniest out there.
feel the pain of pregnant woman.

In Fortnite there are two modes: Battle
Royale and Save the World mode. In
Battle Royale you play until the last
person standing, and in Save the World
you kill all the zombies.
The initial release date for Fortnite Battle
Royale was July 25, 2017. The developers
have been working on Save the World
since 2011. The Designer of Fortnite is
Darren Sugg, and the composure is Rom
Di Prisco. The publishers of the game are
Epic Games and Gearbox Software. The
Developers are Epic Games and People
Can Fly.

In Fortnite there are three types of
gamemodes there is Solo which you play
by yourself. There is Duos mode which
you play with one other person and
Squads mode which is a squad up to four
people.
In the Squads game mode and Duos there
is a setting that you can play by yourself
against other Squads or Duos.
There are also new game modes that are
there for a small period of time like,
Sniper Shootout, 20 vs 20, High
Explosives, Blitz, 50 vs 50, Solid Gold,
etc.
Continued on next page

GAMEREVIEW: Surviving Mars
BY JAK E GROSSM AN

Surviving Mars is a new video game that
was released on March 15, 2018, with
awesome creativity. It is a single player
game with a building aspect to it. The
goal is to make a colony on Mars that
survives until the colony is destroyed by
the game itself. There is no winning or
game completion, but there are
achievements. It is an infinite timeline
with infinite solutions. But, the game
throws random conditions at the player.
There are different options to start the
game. Set-up options include establishing
different sponsors which allow different
starting playing tools and aids that will
help the player. Set up happens on the
startup screen.
One of the different set-up options is to
determine how many ships a player can
operate and take back to earth in the
mission. The most often used set-up is
with sponsor International Mars Mission.
Choosing sponsor International Mars

Mission, the player has four trips back to
earth.
Another set-up choice involves the
commander profile. The commander
profile set-up allows the player to change
how much knowledge he or she has
about surviving on Mars. The
commander set-up choices are many:
Inventor, Oligarch, Hydro Engineer,

Doctor, Psychologist, Politician, Futurist,
Ecologist, Astrologist, and Rocket
Scientist. If you start as a doctor you will
have more knowledge about taking care
of the people in your colony. On the
other hand, if you start as a rocket
scientist then you have more knowledge
about fixing your rocket.
The set-up choices are so detailed that

they also include a logo for the player?s
mission. The logo has minimal effect on
the game, but it changes how the player?s
rocket appears and other physical
properties that are built throughout the
game which also carry the player?s logo.
A final mission set-up involves what is
called a Mystery Section which allows
the player to change the storyline of the
mission. Basically, this means that the
player?s set-up can decide nearly all
components of how his or her game ? the
mission - is played through, including
how it starts and finishes.

Once a player finishes his set-up, the
mission starts and his spaceship lands on
Mars at the area chosen by the player.
The game designers introduce real
photographs to show the terrain where
the player is.
Continued on next page

Page 9

The Biggest
Superhero
Movie Ever
BY A RTYOM T RUK HACHEV
SPOI L ER-FREE REVI EW
Avengers: Infinity War is a movie that Marvel has been
working on for almost a decade. It is a very iconic film
that was made from all of the comic books, the previous
movies, and superheroes. They have all led to this iconic
movie.
Most of the movie is about Thanos who is the main
protagonist, and is trying to steal the Infinity Stones,
The Infinity Stones are six incredibly powerful objects
relating to different aspects of the universe. These stones
were created by the Cosmic Entities. Each one of the
stones possesses unique capabilities that have been
enhanced and altered by various aliens.
There are six stones total, there is the time stone, mind
stone, soul stone, reality stone, power stone, and the
space stone. If you possess all of the stones at once you
have the power to kill half the universe with the snap of
your fingers.
To watch Infinity War you have to understand it fully. To
understand it fully you will need to watch Dr. Strange.
You will also need to see the first and other previous
Avengers movies. You also need to see most of the other
marvel movies so you can understand this movie. The
powers of these heroes you won?t really know until you
see the superheroes movie, like his or her own movie.
The movie is kind of confusing because Thanos is
supposed to be the villain but the movie is about him, so
in the movie the protagonist is Thanos, and all the other
superheroes are the antagonists.
The settings of the movie are very nice, like Earth, Titan
which is a fictional planet where Thanos?s relatives were
originally made. There is also Vomir where the soul
stone is located. There is also the human-made star
Nidavellir and Knowhere, which is where all of
Thanos?s spaceships are located. There was
Zen-Whoberi where Gamora from Guardians of the
Galaxy is from.
The superheroes in this movie had wonderful acting.
Chris Hemsworth as Thor especially did a really good
job, Spiderman?s Tom Holland also did very well.
Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man did a wonderful job as
well as all the other actors in this movie.
The first Avengers movie was similar to this movie in
various ways. The movies were similar because Thanos
made the attack in the first movie with the aliens, and he
had those exact aliens attack Wakanda, which in my
opinion was the best part of the movie. Those aliens in
the first movie were actually Thanos?s
aliens which it talks about in the
movie.
This movie?s directors were Joe Russo
and Anthony Russo. They did a
wonderful job directing this film.
These directors also did well directing
the last two Captain America movies,
and they will direct the next Avengers
movie. These directors did an overall
really good job.
This new movie is on top of the
grossing charts this year, with the
movie?s total grossing as of May 1 to
be $857,531,270 Worldwide,
$322,831,270 Domestically, and the
Far r ight: Captain Amer ica meets
his match in Thanos.
Bottom r ight: Shur i, from Black
Panther, makes an appear ance in
I nfinity War.

rest foreign.
The release date of this
movie was April 27,2018.
The runtime of the movie is
2 hours, 3 minutes.
Marvel is releasing a new
Avengers movie in 2019,
and everybody is hoping
that it will continue the
way Infinity War ended.
The movie?s widest release
has been 4,474 theaters,
which is a lot of movie
theaters if you think about
it and that was only 6 days
after the release.

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Surviving Mars
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Immediately, the player has three rovers
or little ships with different
responsibilities and abilities. The
different rovers or RC?s are called RC
Explorer, RC Rover, and RC Transport.
The names of each RC is somewhat
self-explanatory.
The RC explorer is used to explore new
areas during the mission on Mars and
acquire knowledge, for example about
materials. The RC explorer has a small
storage unit that allows it to collect
materials.
The RC Rover is used to transport all
kinds of stuff and people, and it also has
a small storage unit for materials.
The RC Transport has the largest storage
unit. It transports the materials needed in
a player?s mission to build where and
what is needed to complete the mission.
The RCs collect the materials to build the
player?s colony. The better the player
builds his colony, the longer it will last.
There are hundreds of different materials
on Mars.
The most important building category
that is needed is what generators for the
colony to
operate. After
a player
collects the
necessary
resources
using the RCs,
he can build a
power
generator. For
example, one
of the power
generators that
is most
economical in
cost is a wind

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Fortnite
CONTI NUED FROM

power generator.

The reason Fortnite got so popular was
because of the way you are able to build,
The cost is important because cheaper
and there many different places on the
items can be at the beginning of the
map, like Greasy Groove, Tomato Town,
game. The building opportunities are
Pleasant Park, Retail Row, Tilted Towers,
very diverse. A player can have cables
and a lot of more fun places. There is also
that power other machines. For example,
places that are unnamed like the place
a drill can be used to collect concrete and
next to Flush Factory, the Motel, the
glass which are two materials useful as
forbidden Castle, and etc.
the game plays out. A player can also
power a space dome and have oxygen
inside and then have farmers to grow
There is breaking news that tilted towers
food for other places that mine resources is getting destroyed by a meteor. Proof of
to build more.
this happening is the telescopes pointing
up, a giant blue flair in the sky, a creepy
The mission involves creating a
voicemail saying that the world will end
civilization. The better the civilization
on April 18th, and rumors that, that?s
the better the colony.
when tilted was getting destroyed, but it
didn?t happen so we don?t know if it?s
Another customization for this game?s
real. Everyone now is confused with what
mission is that you can change attitudes
the developers are going to replace Tilted
of the NPCs (game characters)
encountered by the player in the game. I Towers with, but on April 18th it didn?t
have not seen this in any other game. For happen, so maybe in Season 4 we?ll find
out what happens.
example, you can make the game?s
mission more difficult by adjusting
MPCs attitudes. An intriguing attitude
The item shop is a big part of Fortnite,
choice example is that a player can make
new skins coming out everyday, very rare
the MPCs act like they hate each other or
skins that never came out ever again.
act normal as if they have no opinion.
There is a very rare backpack or backbling
as it is called in Fortnite, the Brite Bag, it
The home
is a leaked backbling that only the
screen set-up
options are so founders of the game should have, but
intricate that a some people say you can get it if you find
three llamas in a game, or if you hack you
player can
can probably get it. A llama is a type of
change how
chest that there are only three of, in a
his or her
building looks game, you can probably find one in a
game if you?re lucky, but not even close to
and where
three.
they are
positioned in
the game.
Another rare item is the Skull Trooper,
These building
and the Ghoul Trooper, which both came
set-up options
out on a Halloween special event, these
allow a player
two skins are some of the most sawed
to create a
after skins in Fortnite, the reason is
because of how cool they look, the rarity,
and that most people who have the skin
are pros, because Halloween was when
the game pretty much almost came out, so
you must be good if you played for that
long. The Ghoul Trooper is probably the
one that?s more rare, because it was more

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expensive and a bit ugly in some people
opinions.
V-bucks are a currency in the game which
you can buy with real money, and you can
buy V-bucks on Fortnite, and you can use
V-bucks to buy stuff in game like, skins,
pickaxes, hang gliders, dances, and other
cool stuff.
The Battle Pass is a thing you buy with
V-bucks, and it?s challenges that you
complete for cool skins, dances, gliders,
etc. There is a battle pass for every
season, and you have to buy it again every
season, The battle pass in season two
ended on tier 70, and you got the very
cool black knight skin, and for Season
three, it went up to tier 100, and the
reward is The Reaper, but they basically
put John Wick in the game, which is
awesome. They usually have a theme for
every battle pass like for season two it
was medieval, and for season three it was
space. But for Season one there was no
battle pass because they were still
developing the game.
Save the World isn?t the best part about
Fortnite, it is basically a co-op Survival
game, and there is zombies coming at you
and you have to kill all of them, Fortnite
was originally supposed to be just the
Save the World, but they came up with
Battle Royale later on, and the bad thing
about Save the World is because the game
costs money, Fortnite Battle Royale you
can get for free, you can just download it.
Save the World on the other hand is
minimum $40, which is pretty expensive
for that game because it?s not the best of
games.
Fortnite came out with a mobile version
and it is basically Battle Royale, but on
mobile devices. It is awesome that they
got to make a mobile version because it is
hard to make a game the same as it is
from console on to mobile, so that?s
impressive.

REVIEW: Rampage
BY T HOM AS VAN DER L EEGTE

George and the
two other
animals tear
across North
America
destroying
everything in
their path.

R

ampage is a science fiction movie
with an insane amount of action all
throughout the movie.
In the movie Rampage Davis Okoye, a
primatologist has an unbreakable bond
with an albino gorilla named George.
Davis had saved this gorilla when he was
just a baby and when George?s mom was
murdered in front of him.
When a science experiment comes
crashing down on earth, George the
gorilla gets infected by the CRISPR and
turns in a huge powerful creature. As

CRISPR was a
science
experiment
done in space
and when it got
out of hand it
had come
crashing down
on earth. As
George and the
two other animals tear across North
America destroying everything in their
path.
Davis Okoye is determined to get his best
friend back to his normal self and tries to
make sure nobody gets hurt during the
process. Dr. Kate Caldwell shows up and
apparently knows a cure for Davis?s
beloved gorilla.
Davis is ready to do whatever it takes to
get George cured. Davis and Dr. Kate
Caldwell go through much trouble to get
to Chicago trying to find the cure for
these animals before they destroy

Chicago and hurt the people living there.
I enjoyed everything about the movie
even though it was very nonfictional. The
connection between Davis and George
the Gorilla really set the tone of the
movie. Rampage also had a lot of action
all throughout the movie keeping it very
entertaining.

Rampage is a movie based on the arcade
game ?Rampage? from 1986. The arcade
game was created by Bally Midway. In
the Arcade Game, you choose a character
which you then destroy buildings with to
gain points while the military is also after
you, trying to kill you which will make
you lose. Warner Bros currently owns all
rights to the property with their purchase
of Midway Games.

Rampage is an action-packed movie with
everyone?s favorite, Dwayne Johnson.
Dwayne Johnson plays the role of a
The director of Rampage was Brad
primatologist, Davis
Peyton. Brad Peyton was also
" Rampage also had one of the four producers along
Okoye. The movie
also has other great
a lot of action all with Beau Flynn, Hiram Garcia,
cast members like
and John Rickard. Carlton
throughout the Cruse, Ryan J. Condal, and
Naomie Harris (Dr.
Kate Caldwell) from
movie keeping it Adam Sztykiel were the ones
007 and Pirates of the
had written the screenplay
ver y enter taining." who
Caribbean movies.
for the movie. The movie had a
Another important
very high budget of 120 million
character from the movie was Jeffrey
dollars. The movie was filmed in the city
Dean Morgan (Agent Russell) who also
of Chicago, Illinois.
played in the Walking Dead and Grey?s
Anatomy.
Rampage was brought to theaters in the
United States April 13, 2018. Rampage is
The three animals in the movie were
releasing in the rest of the world
infected by CRISPR. CRISPR had turned
throughout the months of April and May.
the animals infected by it into huge
powerful creatures. The main animal
It has grossed $334 million worldwide,
affected from the movie rampage was an
making it the eighth highest-grossing
albino gorilla (George). The other two
film of 2018. The movie made
animals affected by it were a fox and a
$35,753,093 on 15 April 2018 which was
crocodile. These three animals team up to
the wide release of the movie.
destroy the city of Chicago

blackmails him
is someone that
sometimes
hangs out with
his group, but
none of them
really like him.
He just follows them around and
infiltrates himself in everyone's business.
His name is Martin, and he?s kind of the
typical annoying geek.

REVIEW: Love, Simon
Love, Simon is a teen romantic
started
BY A L ESSANDRA DI CATAL DO
comedy. The movie is about a
emailing
17-year old that comes out of the closet
each other every day. It became a routine
as a homosexual. He hid who he was for
and something for Simon to look forward
a long time until one day one of his best
to. After a while, Simon started to try to
friends called him and told him to check
figure out who Blue was. That is what
out a web site. It was a website that
the whole story is about, figuring out
everyone used, and so everyone could
who Blue is.
see what other people posted on it.
Simon?s friend, Leah, was the one that
Later in the movie, Simon was so
told him to go to the website.
anxious to hear from Blue, that he uses
the school?s public computer to email
The characters are the typical teenagers.
him. When he was done, he got
They go to school every morning, get
distracted by a teacher and forgets to sign
coffee on the way, and complain about
out of his account. After he just leaves
their lives. But they talk about their
the library one of his
feelings and they?re sensitive. That?s not
?friends?looked
something that teens really do nowadays.
through all his emails
and decided to
blackmail him. He tells
There he saw that there was someone like
Simon that if he
him, someone that was in the closet, but
doesn?t get his friend,
this person came out online. They signed
Abby, to date him, he?s
the paragraph as Blue since they didn?t
going to show
want to reveal their identity to everyone.
everyone the emails.
The moment Simon saw that he
Simon, feeling trapped,
immediately related to it.
decided to do what the
blackmailer was asking
him to do.
Simon decided to email Blue to show his
support. He told Blue about his story and
how he feels being in the same situation
The ?friend?that
as him. After that day, Simon and Blue

I actually enjoyed this movie. I found it
inspiring and very romantic. I also found
it motivating for the LGBTQ, it?s
something that kind of represents them.
Becky Albertalli is the author of the
book, ?Simon vs. The Homo sapiens
Agenda?, which later became ?Love,
Simon?. The author says she has learned

a lot in the five years since she started
writing Simon vs The Homo sapiens
Agenda, particularly about who has the
right to tell certain stories.
?It?s kind of awful that we have gotten to
2018 without this being a part of our
culture,? said Albertalli. "But sometimes
I get kids who are not in a place where it
is safe to come out, but they read the
book and they felt less alone because of
it."
The budget for this movie was $17
million, which is very little compared to
most movies. In return the movie made
over $50 million. Considering how little
the cast was, and that they didn?t have
many sets, you could tell that not much
money was spent on it.

REVIEW: AWrinkle in Time
Despite the amazing visual effects in the
movie A Wrinkle in Time the story line
was confusing and didn?t make sense.
Throughout the movie I was a little
confused because certain scenes didn?t
add any value to the movie and made me
rethink the lessons and the points that
should be learned from watching it.
A Wrinkle in Time was released into
theaters February 26, 2018. The movie is
about a teenage girl named Meg Murray
and her quest to find her father, Dr.
Murray played by Chris Pine, who has
been missing for five years. She is
accompanied on this journey by her
adopted younger brother Charles Wales
and a boy from her school named Calvin
O?Keefe. In addition there are three
?beings? that can shape shift into
whatever they?d like but for the majority
of the story they look humans. Their
names are Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Which and
Mrs. Who.
Meg Murray, the protagonist, is played
by Storm Reid. Calvin O?Keefe is played
by Levi Miller. Charles Wallace played
by Deric McCabe.
Meg is an awkward and troublesome girl.
She is picked on by the school bully and
was sent to the principal office for her
bad grades. Charles Wales is an odd kid
and, basically a genius. It is ironic
because even though he has book smarts
he is easily brainwashed and still very
ignorant, as are all children his age.
Calvin is a sweet boy and is very curious

of Meg. This might
Charles welcomes his
BY RACHEL H ODES
be because he?s trying
friend Mrs. Whatsit.
to distract himself from himself from his
Before the scene ends Mrs. Whatsit says
own circumstances or because he
the tesseract is real and runs out.
genuinely cares about her and may even
like her.
The tesseract is the discovery that Dr.
Murray made and supposably
disappeared because of it. When Mrs.
The Missus are played by Reese
Whatsit says this it gives
Witherspoon, (Mrs. Whatsit) Oprah
the family hope and once
Winfrey, (Mrs.Which) and Mindy Kaling
that happens the story picks
(Mrs. Who). Since the director chose to
up quickly.
put these famous people in the movie, I
believe it took away from the movie and
Of course it is impossible
focused on the actors rather than the plot.
to include all the details a
I found it hard to concentrate on the story
book includes into one
line when I kept focusing on Oprah as an
movie but the writer
actress. She is such a powerful person, as
definitely could've gone
is Witherspoon and Kaling. In a way it
into more detail on the evil
made some sense because these
forces that are trying to
characters have been living for billions of
destroy all good. The
years and larger-than-life like.
characters spent too much
time on earth and didn?t get
to the bad planet with
This movie is practically Storm Reids?
enough time to develop the
big break and by adding these iconic
climax.
women took a lot of attention off of her.
Although these actresses weren?t
necessary for the movie it definitely
Even though the movie
hyped it up way more.
wasn?t that great it did a
pretty good job following
the book and first movie.
The movie began the same way the book
did that was published in 1962. It was a
dark and stormy night when Meg,
The budget for the movie
Charles, and their mother Kate played by
was 250 million and as of
Gugu Mbatha-Raw were in the kitchen.
May 2 the movie has made
Charles was making them sandwiches
126.5 million. This was a
and warm milk because he couldn?t
huge loss of money for
sleep. All of a sudden a mysterious
Disney.
character comes with rag like clothing.
Meg and her mother are in shock while

REVIEW: Three Wynwood
When you walk into Three Wynwood the
restaurant has very unique decorations all
throughout inspired by the mexican artist
Frida Kahlo. The restaurant has blue
chairs, green sofas, and black with gold
tables. These colors are all inspired from
the art Frida Kahlo did. The restaurant
overall has a very unique interior that
you will not see anywhere else.

BY T HOM AS VAN DER L EEGTE
Three Wynwood has one hundred seats
and a ten seat chef counter. As you walk
in there is immediately a bar located
straight ahead. Across from the bar is a
counter set up with chairs where you
could also sit if you would like too.

The outside of the restaurant where the
entrance is has a sign glowing blue
saying ?Three?. Around the sign by the
entrance there are three very colorful
pieces of art. These three pieces of art
could are most likely there because the
restaurant is called ?Three?.

On Rotten Tomatoes the Tomatometer
gave the movie 39% Rotten.
I wouldn't discourage someone from
seeing this movie because once again the
visual are pretty impressive. I would say
though for someone who has read this
book and likes it a lot to not get their
hopes up.

which had opened for preview October
26, 2017. The restaurant did very well on
their opening day and went on from
there.
The restaurant has a very famous chef,
Norman Van Aken is known as the
founding father of New World Cuisine.
Norman Van Aken makes the most
delicious Latin, Caribbean, Asian,
African, and American

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Sports
Spring Sports Wrap-up
BY T HOM AS VAN DER L EEGTE
The Spring Sports for the middle school
flew by this year with many wins and
losses.
The Spring Sports for the middle school
were baseball, water polo, softball, JV
and V lacrosse, and the girls and boys
tennis teams.
The middle school's boys tennis team
ended the season with the best record of
all the Spring Sports with 8 wins and
only 1 loss against Ransom Everglades.
The baseball team ended off their season
with 3 wins and 11 losses. The baseball
team had won two games against Doctors
Charter and their other win of the season
was against Cushman. 8th Grader Jake
Goldberg said that he was not pleased
with the outcome of the season and
thought the team could have done better
throughout the season.
The water polo team ended off the season
with 1 win against Riviera Prep and the
other 7 games ended up as losses. 8th
grader Jake Grossman said that even
though he thought the team could have
done better, he still had a lot of fun
during the season.
The softball team played as well as they
could and beat the number 1 team in the
conference said assistant coach Jeffrey
Watson. The Softball team had 6 wins
and 7 losses this season. Assistant coach
Jeffrey Watson also said that he was very
pleased with the outcome of the season
because of the level of talent the team
had.

The JV lacrosse team played a very well
season with 7 wins and 3 losses. The
team had lost two of the three games
against Belen and the other one against
Ransom. Even though the team had many
new players who had not played lacrosse
before, they had still managed to have a
great season with lots of potential in the
future.
The varsity lacrosse team had ended the
season with 4 wins and 6 losses.
eighth-grader Noah Gaudet said he was
happy with the outcome of the season but
still thought the team could have done
way better then they did. Even though he
thought the team could have done better
he ended up having a lot of fun and will
definitely play again next season for the
high school team.

loss against Ransom. 8th Grader Zack
Freedman said, ?I was not pleased with
the outcome of the season because we
had lost the last game of the season?.
Zack said that he felt the team could have
done better but in the end, he had a lot of
fun.
The head coaches for the Spring Sports
teams were Jimmy Simpson (Baseball),
Eleni Pizanias (Water Polo), Chaka
Bainbridge (JV and V Lacrosse), Janet
Haas (Boys & Girls Tennis), and Chris
Antonopoulos (Softball).

The Spring Sports awards ceremony took
place on Wednesday, May 8, 2018.

Photos by Open I Studio

The Spring Sports for the middle
school all had an overall good season
even though some had many losses
they had all have gotten better and
hope to have more wins next season.

The girls' tennis team
had 6 wins and 4
losses at the end of
the season. 7th
Grader Lucia Burton
said she was happy
with the outcome of
the season and
enjoyed being on the
team. She also said
that she enjoyed
playing with the
team and hopes to be
on the high school
tennis team next
season.
The boys' tennis
team had the best
record of the middle
school spring sports
with 8 wins and 1

Middle Schoolers Help Score
Another Championship
BY A L ESSANDRA DI CATAL DO

This year there are six middle school
students playing in the the Varsity Girls
Basketball Team. The students are Riana
Doctor (8th), Kristina Godfrey (7th),
Karina Gordon (7th), D'Yani Gregoire
(8th), Sydney Shaw (8th), and Emani
Theodule (8th).
Coach O, who also coaches middle
school girls volleyball, is the coach for
the Girls Varsity Basketball Team. This is
his 14th year coaching varsity girls, he?s
never coached anywhere else. All of his
coaching experience has been here, in
Miami Country Day.
?My favorite part about coaching is
actually seeing kids achieve their dreams
and goals, in terms of playing college
basketball,? said Coach O, ?We?ve been
fortunate to have a lot of our kids to
actually move on to a lot of good
colleges to play.?

Emani Theodule, an eighth grader on the
team, has been playing for five years. But
this is her first year on the team. One of
her favorite parts about being on the team
is learning from her coach and her
teammates.

Riana Doctor, another eighth grader on
the team, has been playing the sport for
three years. This is her first year on the
team too. She really likes scoring in the
games.

?My favorite part of the sport is scoring
in offence,? said Emani, ?I love
basketball. It?s a big part of my life, I
play it everyday.?

?My favorite thing about being part of
the team is experiencing teamwork.?
stated Riana. ?Basketball is a big part of
my life, because it will help me go to
college for free.?

Karina Gordon, a seventh grader, has
been on the team for just one year. She
has been playing for three years. Her
most cherished part of basketball, like
Emani, is scoring.

?My favorite thing about being part of
the team is that we act as if we?re a
family so we get along really well,? said
eighth grader, D?Yani Gregoire, ?So off
the basketball court we?re all really
close.?

?My favorite part of being on this team is
getting to travel with my teammates and
have fun with them,? stated Karina.
?Basketball is definitely a big part of my
life, if I didn?t play basketball I wouldn?t
travel as much.?

He feels that the middle school players
are very important. One of the things
they?ve been able to do in terms of
sustaining the excellence, is they?re
been able to get kids out of middle
school level. Which they?re able to
keep them for a very long time, and so
if they are able to impart their habits
on the kids earlier, the program just
stays at a certain level for longer
period of time. Because the earlier they
get them, the better they can help them
become.

She has been playing for Country Day
for three years and a half, but she?s been
on varsity for only a year and a half.
D?Yani started playing basketball since
third grade. ?My favorite thing about
basketball is being able to compete
against other people and show my skills.?

She said that it?s a big part of her life,
because when she?s on her senior year
she?s going to try to get a scholarship so
she can go to college.
Kristina Godfrey is the other seventh
grader on the team. She?s been playing
basketball since she was four years old,
but this is her first year on the team. She
likes playing with a team and having fun
in the court.
?The best thing about being part of the
Country Day team is being able to travel
a lot, and we play a good team so it?s
good competition.? said Kristina.
These are all the amazing middle school
students in the varsity girls basketball
team. They all have bright futures in this
team, considering that they have so much
talent at such a young age.

Sydney Shaw, is one of the eighth
graders on the team. She has been
playing for three years, the same
amount of time she?s been on the team.
She loves the thrill she gets on the
games, and her teammates.
?It?s definitely a big part of my life,?
said Sydney, ?I don?t know what I
would be doing if I wasn?t playing
basketball.?

Tennis season comes to an end
BY A RTYOM T RUK HACHEV
Tennis is a very competitive, and
important sport in Miami Country Day.
?We don?t really do drills in practice, and
when we warm up we just hit the ball
back and forth, and sort of just get loose,
but we do run a lot in practice and you
could get tired really easily.? Said Scout
Hudson who plays on the Girls Tennis
Team. ?Tennis doesn?t intervene with
school because school is work, and
Tennis is hard. But if I had to choose
school s more important than tennis.?
?The start of practice we do some drills,
play some games, and just play against
each other.? said, 8th grade boys tennis

player Lucas Chemla. ?So i got on the
tennis team by trying out in 6th grade
and I made top 5 so I didn?t have to
tryout anymore, basically if you?re a
starter, which is numbers 1-5 then you
don?t have to tryout the next year or any
other year.?
?The drills that we do are, in & out
which is when one person hits the ball to
another person, play a game, and then
after one point another person goes, and
then the other person.? said Lucas
Chemla.
?We divide it up sometimes boys and
girls, and sometimes together, and we
practice our forehands our backhands, we
do volleys, serves, overheads, and so we
have a big basket out balls,
and we just keep feeding the
balls, and everybody just
works on their strokes,
placement, and their game.?
Said Tennis head coach Janet
Haas.
Janet has been working hard
and coaching tennis,
basketball, cross country, for
more than forty years, and
almost fourteen years at this

school. Janet is a very experienced coach
and she knows lots of good and helpful
drills to make you better and stronger.
?Tournaments from my perspective are
very good, we love the competition, we
love going to other schools, maybe
making new friends, I love watching the
team play 5 singles, 2 doubles, for boys
and girls, all the kids have lots of fun,
they love seeing other players from other
schools play, and that?s the most
important part and the fun part is
competing. This year the biggest
competition for the boys was Ransom
and for the girls it?s Carrollton.? Said
Janet Haas.
?The games that we play are touch
defense, king of the court, and mostly
just sets.? Said 8th grade Tennis player
Daniel Tzalik, ?So the boys team has
played 9 games and my individual record
is 7-2, or 7 wins and 2 loses.?
Coach Frigerio said that it is her first
year coaching the middle school tennis
team at Miami Country Day.
?At the beginning of the year, we usually
did singles, and doubles in practice, and
now we just let the kids choice what do,

like touch defense, in and out, sets, kind
of the court we do sometimes, and all of
those games.? Said Coach Frigerio, ?The
boys are 8-1 so the boys killed it this
season, and matches, they have been very
competitive, we never had easy wins,
they were competitive.?
Coach Frigerio also said, ?The girls with
the most potential I think are Scout
Hudson, and Lucia Burton, because the
both try very hard, they learned a lot this
year, and they are both just really good
players, Lucia on the team is #1 and
Scout #3, and on the boys team its #1
Max Castanon who is probably the best
on the team, and he?s also only in 7th
grade so that makes him have more
potential I think.?
Nina Vara said, ?An average practice is
us having fun, playing games like touch
defense, king of the court, sets, and just
lots of games.?
?My individual record is 8-1 so I?ve
played 9 games, won 8, lost 1.? Said
Lucia Burton. ?So on the boys team the
#1 player is good, but other players could
also beat him, so I would say #1 or #2.?

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Around MCDS
One Student's Experience with the
Oratorical Contest
BY A NA M UNI Z RODRI GUEZ

Teachers always tell you
that the hardest thing
about writing an essay
is starting it, and of
course, they are right.
Writing my oratorical
essay took a long time
and was very difficult. I would spend
class time writing the first paragraph,
only to delete it at home. Then after
writing about a million versions of the
same paragraph, I decided to do a
personal take on the essay. Since I come
from a long line of immigrants I felt the
best way to approach this was by telling
my own story. Once I started writing, I
couldn?t stop and I wound up finishing
my oratorical essay in one day. It was
easy presenting the subject since I am so
passionate about it and it affects me in a
personal way. I was shocked that I had
qualified for the final round but not
because I thought I did badly, but rather

because the thought of speaking
in front of the whole middle
school made me very very
nervous. I practiced and practiced
until I had almost memorized it.
Presenting my speech was the
easiest part of the whole contest!
The hardest part was definitely
writing my essay. I?m very
grateful for the experience that
the oratorical contest has given
me. I have learned a lot, and even
lost some of the fear of presenting
in front of a large audience.

Advice: Be Kind
BY JAM ES SCHER
Seek kindness
The importance of
being kind goes a long
way. Being kind makes
YOU feel good. An act
of kindness leaves an everlasting impact
that is not forgotten. Think of a time in
your life when someone was kind to you
or when you showed kindness to others. I
bet you never forgot that moment.
As I reflect on my 2 years I spent at

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Night

MCDS I would like to share some
advice. Reach out to others who are not
so popular. Put yourself in their shoes.
Think how nice it would be to notice
those who pass you by with a simple
gesture of striking up a conversation.
Perhaps you won?t become best of
friends but the thought of letting
someone know that they matter and are
noticed will have a wonderful impact.
Being sensitive to others makes you a
better person. You have the power to
make someone feel better by just being
kind. We all crave to feel love and
acceptance, for some it?s not as easy
to fit in. Step out of your comfort

This year, the 8th gr ade r aised $1,000 to
donate to a school in Puer to Rico. On
Fr iday, M arch 9 they hosted a M ovie
Night fund r aiser. They showed the classic
film, Back to the Future. it was a fun
night for ever yone, and helped reach the
$1,000 fund-r aising goal.

zone and appreciate the differences in
others. Seek kindness, seek gratitude,
seek peace, seek love.
This is my last year at MCDS. I made a
wonderful friend with someone at
MCDS. Most people would ignore him.
They would ignore him because of his
differences. He may not look or act cool
enough for others but for me I saw in him
a sweet person who needed a friend. I
saw myself in him. I did not want him to
feel the way I used to when I first started
out here. Not having anyone to talk to
had a profound

impact on me. I?m not sure how many of
you realize that there are kids at school
who walk around feeling like they don?t
belong, who are not popular or cool
enough. It sucks to feel like you are not
good enough to be noticed.
If you decided to do a lot less judging
and a lot more loving, that would make a
huge difference. Be good, be your true
self, and just be kind. Practice empathy
and your heart will feel rich.

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Maker Fair

Best
Buddies
Fifteen of our Best Buddies club member s
had a fun and meaningful day on M arch 9
bowling with their Buddies from The
L ear ning Exper ience School in South
M iami.

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agree with the
server?s
suggestion.
An item they
only make
during dinner
hours, the tuna tartare which is served
with baby lettuce, and a sauce that is a
creativity from the kitchen, blending
condiments from different continents and
you have a lemony creamy sauce. By just
blending, yuzu with sabayon!

REVIEW: Kyu Wynwood
through the
KYU, an Asian restaurant located in
BY CHL OE POROSOFF
menu, I
Wynwood, one of Miami?s most
noticed many environmentally friendly
happening districts where graffiti artists
choices. Grass fed beef, range chicken,
are found. Opened in February of 2016,
and duck.
with a James Beard nomination a year
later, for ?Best New Restaurant?. KYU,
a wood fire Asian experience has a team
Then we ordered our appetizers. The
that plants trees for the wood used for
avocado salad prepared with feta cheese
cooking.
and a zesty lemon ginger dressing, which
is homemade. My father and I shared our
favorite, and also a favorite of the chief
When you first walk into the restaurant
delegator of the restaurant. The pork and
you are not only greeted by the hostess
shiitake gyoza, alongside a smoked
but also by the artwork. As soon as my
truffle ponzu sauce for dipping. My
family and I were seated, we were
mother decided to be more daring and
approached with a menu. As I read

As for the entrĂŠe we decided to pick and
share from the Smoked section. The Beef
Short Ribs cooked with sweet soy and
garlic sauce. This entrĂŠe was succulent
and the flavors are salty and sweet. The
dessert list is simple with interesting
flavors. My suggestions, if you are a
chocolate fanatic, is the dark chocolate
s?mores cake with banana-bourbon ice
cream, topped with toasted marshmallow.
Do not dare to walk away without tasting

REVIEW: Three Wynwood
Chef Norman van Aken has won many
awards such as the James Beard Award
for Best Chef and I recommend you try
his food at Three Wynwood.

would definitely be the fried chicken and
waffles. Three Wynwood also serves
sweets on the brunch menu such as
french toast.

Three Wynwood has the option of having
a 3 course meal or even the 5 course
meal.

The Three Wynwood lunch menu
contains foods such as shrimp
ceviche,potato salad, and tomato salads
as the first plate. As the main plate they
have foods such as scallops and grilled
duck breast. The best part of the lunch
menu is definitely the dessert in which
they serve homestead mulberry pie
covered in whip cream.

Three Wynwood is open for brunch,
lunch, and dinner Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
There are also private events available at
Three Wynwood which you would need
to email them for more information.
For Brunch at Three Wynwood they have
delicious seafoods such as roasted
oysters and ceviche. They also serve
snacks for brunch like tomato soup and
biscuits. My favorite on the brunch menu

Three Wynwood has an amazing dinner
menu which contains grilled papaya and
a really good spiced flounder. The
restaurant also has very unique desserts
for after dinner which are all different
types of cheeses from all over the world.

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of Dance

the chef's selection of sorbet flavors
depending on season. Mango sorbet is
not one to ignore. Sorbets, are
refreshing, 100 percent natural without
additives, and great dessert during a
warm summer evening.
So why did I choose KYU? The concept
of KYU of being a green restaurant, and
for every time it takes from nature it
gives back in folds. The Chief delegator
was the former General Manager for
Zuma, a well-known sushi restaurant on
Brickell and downtown Miami frequently
visited by celebrities. The Chef Mr.
Michael Lewis believes that ?the art of
finding perfection is something
imperfect? this is also called wabi-sabi in
Japanese philosophy. Cooking is an art,
and not every dish will satisfy everyone.
At KYU, the open kitchen can be seen
from any place you sit. Inside KYU?s
kitchen, the team is creating the epitome
of taste by using sustainable local meats
and fish as well as organic
fruits and vegetables. No
wonder it can take two to 4
weeks depending on the
moth to get a table reserved.
Delightful to find
condiments from different
continents come together to
make a dipping sauce or a
bowl of rice. KYU is the
best!